Byler disease

(bīl′ĕr )

ABBR: ByD A lethal, recessively inherited defect mapped to chromosome 18, that produces cholestasis, diarrhea, jaundice and intense pruritus early in childhood. A high incidence of retinitis pigmentosa is associated with this disease, and mental retardation is frequently seen in affected children. Death from liver disease occurs by adolescence.
SYN: SEE: progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS Anterior view of heart with sites of saphenous vein bypass grafts